luni, 12 septembrie 2016

Linux with a irc trojan.

Accordind to this article written on Sep 9, 2016 08:40 GMT - Linux OS is vulnerable again.
The new trojan coded in Rust gathers information about the local system and sends it to its C&C server.
The Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
The syntax and semantics of Rust is similar to that of the Perl programming language.
However the security researchers have discovered Linux malware coded in languages such as Go (Rex) and Lua (LuaBot), but most of it is coded in C or C++ (Mirai).
The trojan integrates the "irc" Rust library by Aaron Weiss, in order to communicate via the IRC protocol to a remote IRC public channel.
Named "Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 was designed to be a cross-platform Trojan
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This tojan has recent discovery by Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker and published an article on their blog.

Un comentariu:

This is weird article. Yes, of course, Rust is a language for low-level programming, so yes, obviously, somebody wrote a trojan in it. And? Do you want to slander Rust for it (that would be stupid) or what?